Virtualbox in Win7 bridged network no adapter

Posted on 2017-09-27 10:03

just some notes on getting it working

I won't get into why, after 10+ years I've switched my work desktop from Linux to Windows 7, but suffice to say its been painful. I still need access to a local linux install for various reasons so where I used to run Windows in a VM under linux, I now need to run linux in a VM under Windows. I ran into a problem which Googling didn't immediately solve and since there were other folks with a similar problem out there I thought I'd write it up.

I have a Windows 7 64bit host, with Virtualbox 5.1.28 r117968 (Qt5.6.2) installed.

I have a Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx network card on the host.

I couldn't get the guest (an Ubuntu 16.04 VM) set up with a bridged network adapter.

It would work with NAT, but I needed the guest to be on the same network as the host.
I'm used to doing this the other way around (Linux host / Windows guest) and haven't had any problems.

In the Virtualbox Settings for the VM, under Network, for Adapter 1 in Attached to: I selected "Bridged Adapter"